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  • Comic Sense

    Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

    by Thomas Pughe ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo dernism. It is obvious, at ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Thoreauvian Modernities

    Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon

    by Bruno Monfort, Christian Maul, David Dowling, David Robinson, Dieter Schulz, Henrik Otterberg, Joseph Urbas, Kristen Case, Michael Jonik, Michel Imbert, Randall Conrad0, Thomas Pughe1, William Rossi2, François Specq4, Laura Dassow Walls6, Michel Granger8 ...
    Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely. Contributors from the United States and Europe explore Thoreau ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Charles Holdefer, Thomas Pughe ...
    In a time of global environmental crisis, pastoralism may seem beside the point. Yet pastoral ideals are still alive even though they often manifest themselves by ironic indirection. What can the pastoral tradition teach us about our ties to particular places?The contributors to this volume attempt to lay the groundwork for the ongoing concern with pastoral and with its critical revision.This ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Joel Myerson ...
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    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Read more

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  • This New Yet Unapproachable America

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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